If your running a Windows 7 system, you don't have to download anything. The clock in the task bar can contain two clocks. I have the local time and UTC displayed. Zulu is UTC and is not affected by daylight savings. Neither is Arizona time, which makes conversion really easy. I am always UTC-7. Although I have in the past been at UTC+0 and UTC+1.

Also, if you have a smart phone you can grab a free app that will tell you what UTC is based on whatever your current location is. I use "UTC " on my iPhone, Im sure there is a variant for android if thats what you use.73!

Spring forward, fall back. In the spring the clocks move forward so the Eastern time gets closer to UTC or -4 hours. In the fall the clocks move back so the Eastern time gets more distant from UTC or -5 hours.

I always get corn-fuzzed on this one so I have 2 digital clocks on the desk in the shack. The one is set to show current time and day in pacific time for California. ( with or with out daylight savings time included.) The other clock is set to show current day and time in Zulu ( Or UTC or GMT depending on your age of reccognition ). So the one I use to tell local time and the other I use for filling out logs and cards. It works for me. Both clocks were purchased from MFJ, and were fairly cheap.

I have an MFJ 24hour clock set to GMT and a standard wall clock set to my local time. My ham pc clock is set to GMT and that helps avoid logging errors where the next GMT calendar day starts at 8:00 pm local summer time and 7:00 pm local winter time.

As a quick look up guide I created a 3 column word table with a GMT column, Summer Time column and Winter Time column for my QTH. I have a a data row for 00:00 GMT through to 23:00.

I use an "add-on" called "FoxClocks". It shows up unobtrusively in the lower part of your browser window, like a taskbar. I have six time zones plus GMT/ UTC showing right now. It adjusts itself for daylight or standard time.

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